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Crisis and Capitalism

  • All levels
  • 21 and older
  • $315
  • 275 Madison Ave, New York, NY
  • 12 hours over 4 sessions

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  • $315
  • Rosa Luxemberg Stiftung @ 275 Madison Ave St #2114, New York, NY 10016
  • 12 hours over 4 sessions
  • Due to public health concerns, the course will be held online, barring a subsidence
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What you'll learn in this history lesson:

Do capitalist societies have an inherent tendency toward economic, social, and political crises? 

Political economists have, over the course of the past 250 years, offered different frameworks to understand the existence of crises within capitalism: from Adam Smith’s “general glut” (when production exceeds demand) to Marx’s belief that the contradictions inherent in capitalism will lead to its eventual demise and the Keynesian attempt to maintain capitalism through state intervention, the question as to whether capitalism necessarily begets crisis has served as one of the foundational concerns for generations of thinkers.  

This course will survey the competing theories of crisis in different strands of political economy and economics. Why does the process of capital accumulation take place unevenly, and what are the implications of this fact for political and social life? 

Students will examine foundational responses to this question: Marx’s theory of crisis (as extended by leading Marxist theorists); Keynes’ theory of persistent unemployment as resulting from the inescapable volatility of aggregate demand; Schumpeter’s concept of creative destruction; Minsky’s financial instability hypothesis (which links speculative credit bubbles and the operation of the financial system to the swings of the business cycle); and Habermas’s legitimation crisis, in which the inability of the state to “manage” economic crises undercuts faith in the existing political system. 

In doing so, we’ll ponder topics such as profitability and competition, the anarchy of capitalist production, technological progress and technological unemployment, and the process of capital concentration, ever mindful of the political and social reverberations of these economic behaviors. 

Note:

There *is* no physical Brooklyn Institute. We hold our classes all over (thus far) Brooklyn and Manhattan, in alternative spaces ranging from the back rooms of bars to bookstores to spaces in cultural centers, including the Center for Jewish History, the Goethe-Institut, and the Barnard Center for Research on Women. We can (and do) turn any space into a classroom. You will be notified of the exact location when you register for a class. 

Instructors will contact students approximately one week prior to the first class with reading assignments and details about the course location

Refund Policy

  • Upon request, we will refund less 5% cancellation fee of a course up until 6 business days before its start date.
  • Students who withdraw after that point but before the first class are entitled to 75% refund or full course credit.
  • After the first class: 50% refund or 75% course credit.
  • No refunds or credits will be given after the second class.

In any event where a customer wants to cancel their enrollment and is eligible for a full refund, a 5% processing fee will be deducted from the refund amount.

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